Spring, 2017

The nursery will be opening for the season in May. Exactly when we will have what ready will depend a lot on the weather. Please phone ahead if you are thinking of visiting in early May.

Look for us at the Rare and Unusual Plant Sale, Sunday, May 14, 2017, at the Ottawa Experimental Farm, off Carling Avenue.

We will be a guest vendor at the Fletcher Wildlife Garden Native Plant Sale on Saturday, June 4th, at the FWG, Central Experimental Farm, east side Prince of Wales Road, 9 am to noon.

Farmers Markets, 2017

Marché Bristol Market

Beaux Arbres is a vendor at the new Marché Pontiac Market, Fridays, 2 – 7 pm. on Highway 148 and rue Wyman Rd, at the site of the Tourist Information Kiosk — a convenient location for cottagers heading north on Friday evenings. June to September.

Beaux Arbres is a pioneer farmstead, settled circa 1830, now a native plant nursery. We specialize in plants native to the Ottawa valley and garden-worthy wildflowers from eastern North America. Our plants are nursery propagated — we do not sell plants dug from the wild. We use no pesticides in our nursery.

Yes indeed! Thanks for asking. I am growing a patch of sweet grass for my partner Michael, who is a basket maker. I should have divisions ready to sell this spring. I don’t know when I’ll have seed – sweet grass is notoriously stingy about seed production.